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began to pick flaws in his earlier work, and at length 

 openly revolted against what they denounced as his 

 unbearable tyranny. Under the leadership of Judge 

 T. G. JONES, who was quite as belligerent and forci- 

 ble a character in his day as Mr. ALLEN, the Ohio 

 breeders established a pedigree record of their own. 

 Kentucky went still further, and under the powerful 

 pa-tronage of ROBERT A. ALEXANDER developed the 

 American Shorthorn Record Association, with a 

 membership distributed all through the Upper Mis- 

 sissippi Valley States, and began the publication of 

 a register which subsequently proved to be the lever 

 necessary for prying Mr. ALLEN off his high Herd 

 Book horse. But that is another story. 



In March, 1882, a regular meeting of this new 

 Kentucky organization was being held at Lexington. 

 "The Breeder's Gazette" had just been established, 

 and I was sent to report the proceedings. There I 

 met for the first time Gol. WILLIAM A. HARRIS, then 

 of Lawrence, Kans., a Director in the Record Asso- 

 ciation. Among his Kentucky friends and admirers 

 he was at his best. Born at Luray, Va., the son 

 of a former member of Congress and one-time Min- 

 ister of the United States to Rio Janiero, HARRIS 

 was a student at the historic Virginia Military 

 Institute at the outbreak of the Civil War, a pupil 



